FTA: "Besse Cooper was declared the world's oldest person in January 2011. In May 2011, Guinness World Records learned that Maria Gomes Valentin of Brazil was 48 days older. Valentin died the next month."

BronyMedic:I feel sorry for the world's oldest woman. They just keep killing her.

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Show had great style, jaw-dropping bad bad bad continuity. And I don't even mean bad 'nerd-ish techie' continuity, I mean "we said this about the plot in the first 10 minutes, but 10 minutes later we forgot all about that key plot point."

SquiggsIN:So common knowledge is that people don't live much past a century and that the oldest person was 122.

Yet a majority of this nation and a third of the planet put their faith in a book that claims a man lived to the ripe old age of 969 years, Methuselah. (Amongst the many others it claims lived to be many hundreds of years)

Humans, on average, are very stupid.

That same book states in no uncertain terms that the rules were changed after the multiple-centenarians had their day. The same passage also states that nobody could ever live beyond 120 years. Make of that what you will.

SquiggsIN:BKITU: SquiggsIN: So common knowledge is that people don't live much past a century and that the oldest person was 122.

Yet a majority of this nation and a third of the planet put their faith in a book that claims a man lived to the ripe old age of 969 years, Methuselah. (Amongst the many others it claims lived to be many hundreds of years)

Humans, on average, are very stupid.

That same book states in no uncertain terms that the rules were changed after the multiple-centenarians had their day. The same passage also states that nobody could ever live beyond 120 years. Make of that what you will.

My point was that the book is full of contradictions and that every explanation for believing what it says requires you to throw logic out the window.